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Charlie Haughey, a retired cabinet maker, was drafted to the US Army in 1967. While being stationed in Vietnam, Haughey was told by his commanding officer to document the war. The twist was that the photos were not to be shot of traditional combat, but as morale boosting photographs of the unit.
After leaving Vietnam, Charlie brought the negatives back to ...

Photographer Johannes Simon from the Associated Press news agency is interested, as NATO forces are preparing for military operations in Asia, in particular, how they are trained before being sent to Afghanistan. Johannes Simon went to the test site of NATO forces in Hohenfels , Bavaria, Germany. At the time of the shooting at the test site was training fighters ...

An-My Le was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1960. Le fled Vietnam with her family as a teenager in 1975, the final year of the war, eventually settling in the United States as a political refugee. Le received BAS and MS degrees in biology from Stanford University (1981, 1985) and an MFA from Yale University (1993). Her photographs and films ...

Nicolas Tikohomiroff (born 1927) is a Russian photographer, born and raised in France. He started working for Magnum in 1959. Famous for his work on World Cinema, he also had a large portfolio of war photography. Tikohomiroff retired and currently lives in France.
Tikhomiroff was born in Paris, France by Russian parents. He received his education at a boarding school away from home. He was trilingual ...

Micha Bar-Am was born in Berlin in 1930 and immigrated with his parents to Palestine when he was six years old. He was active in the pre-State underground and later served in a Palmach (Elite Infantry Corps) Unit during Israel's 1948 War of Independence. It was during this war that Bar-Am witnessed a series of events that altered the face ...